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ETH
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It is Edda, a symbol we do not have in contemporary English alphabet.
In English it is spelled 'th'
In Welsh (Brythonic) it is spelled 'dd'
Both English and Welsh have evolved from the rune 'Eth' spelled also 'Edd' as in the poetic Edda's.
Uppercase Eth : Þ
Lowercase Eth : ð
This rune indicates a scratching or a scraping.
It is an engraver's rune.
It represents both the tool and the marking.
It is metaphysical (as are all Runes).
Eth means 'to scrape beyond the surface' which we apply to learning and gaining insight.
This process is associated with Thawing (Thor), when Ice becomes water, when stone becomes flow, when Death (subconscious, unknown) becomes Life (known) and enables access, flow, river, growth, sustenance. Hence, Eth is the initial rune of the word 'thaw', when Winter ends, Spring returns.
Eth has much relation to the Saxon concept of Wy, which we see in words such as why, whittle, witch (-itch), wizard (-jard), wyvern (-wyrm).
Wy means 'to question', the original energy which manifests as the need for a quest or journey of puzzling out what is meant by the thing.
Whittle, a process of engraving, is associated with wood-working but also conceptually relates to 'mither', associated with mothering, a process of working something out by going through the turning of it in the mind, emotions and intuition, to make sense of it, to know it.
Norse God / Goddess of Gratitude
Sweden, Denmark, Takk means 'thank you'
In Finnish, Kiitos means 'thank you'
Tokk and Njordtr
T: Eth
A: Arrow, Hunt
O: Whole, All
K: Gate
Research Notes:
Google Gemini;
There isn't a single Norse deity specifically identified as the goddess of gratitude; however, the concept of thanks is represented by the figure Þökk (pronounced Thökk), a jötunn (frost giantess) who was actually Loki in disguise and refused to weep for the slain Baldr, thus keeping him in Hel. For practitioners of modern Norse folk traditions, Njörðr was sometimes thanked for a bountiful catch, especially fish, as the deity is associated with wealth and fortune, especially at sea.
- This figure played a role in the myth of Baldr's death.
- She was a jötunn, but is understood to be Loki in disguise.
- Þökk refused to weep for Baldr, a necessary act to allow Baldr to enter Hel.
- Njörðr is a Norse god associated with wealth and the sea.
- In 18th-century Norway, it was recorded that people thanked him for a plentiful catch of fish.